Not-for-profit advocacy: Challenging policy images and pursuing policy change

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 411-428

  Vaughan, Shannon K ^a   Arsneault, Shelly ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Mental illness; National Alliance on Mental Illness; National Children's Alliance; Nonprofit organizations; Policy entrepreneurs; Policy image

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; MENTAL HEALTH; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY;

EID: 51349163213     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2008.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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